Cloudsourcing Storytelling

Creatives working in the field, or engineers plotting out workflows come up against a number of key challenges when it comes to cloud deployment. In this episode we’ll be speaking to a number of cloud experts from Sony about the reality of those challenges, including cost concerns, connectivity and security.

Host: Julian Mitchell

David Rosen, Vice President, Cloud Applications and Solutions

Peter Sykes, Strategic Technology Development Manager

In this special episode, Sony’s Hitomi Hamaba hosts a fireside chat with Morten Brandstrup from TV2 Denmark all about how the broadcaster uses cloud technology and what he thinks about the future of the cloud in news operations.

Host: Hitomi Hamaba, Head of Product, News Solutions

Guest: Morten Brandstrup, Head of News Technology, TV2 Denmark

Welcome to this episode of the Cloudsourcing Storytelling podcast.

The cloud’s ability to create faster and more efficient workflows, between remote and disparate locations makes it the perfect technology for deploying in live production environments where speed is one of the most important aspects.The guests in this episode - recorded live at Sony’s Digital Media Production Centre Europe - will discuss just how it can impact live production. 

Today's guests;

Rowan de Pomerai, chief technology officer at the DPP

Peter Sykes, Strategic Technology Development Manager, Sony

With sports rights holders and leagues always looking for new ways to engage audiences, new technologies are key to creating the best sporting experiences. In this episode, our guests discuss how the cloud is empowering things like gamification and personalisation to tell the story of sports and esports in exciting and novel ways.

Host: Julian Mitchell

Nicolaas Westerhof, Co-founder & CTO Beyond Sports

Tom Daniels, editor, eSports Insider

Steve Hardingson, Head of Broadcast Engineering, Hawk Eye

Supporting journalists in the field is at the heart of what Rory Peck do. But in addition to sage advice, training and financial aid, technology is fundamental to ensuring journalists capture content safely. We look at how the cloud provides insurance and a secure environment for content captured in the field.

Host: Barbara Rosseel - Strategic Marketing Lead at Sony

Deeyah Khan - Documentary director and producer. Sony impact award for current affairs 2018 winner

Jess Kelly - Journalist, filmmaker and cinematographer. Sony impact award for current affairs 2023 winner

Clothilde Redfern – Director at The Rory Peck Trust

The production industry produces significant emissions and systemic change is required to fix it. How to do we not only reduce our impact but exchange it for positive impact; and how can adopting cloud-based technologies reduce carbon footprint? ​

Today's panel includes:

Julian Mitchell - Host

Eduardo Vieitez - CEO, Creast

Angela Ballasteros - International Sustainability & EHS Director, Sony Pictures Entertainment

Barbara Rosseel, Strategic Marketing Lead

In this episode of the Cloudsourcing Storytelling podcast,our guest host Chelsea Fearnley is joined by an expert panel to talk about modern high end television. Together they discuss the link between production and post-production on HBO’s highly-acclaimed series, The Last Of US and talk about the role new technologies - like the cloud play on today’s filmmaking sets. 

This episode’s panel are: 

Eben Bolter, BSC, director of photography 

Timothy Good, ACE, editor

Will Newman, business development & DMPC manager at Sony

In today's episode, host, Julian Mitchell discusses how cloud-supported technologies are decentralising and democratising the filmmaking process, making it easier for filmmakers to produce, post-produce and distribute their content without the need for partners. ​

On today's panel:

Sarah Thomas Moffat - Cinematographer

Murray Woodfield - Director, UK Film Festival

Alvaro Ortiz - Acquisition Solutions Specialist

In this episode of Cloudsourcing Storytelling, host Julian Mitchell and the panel discuss the cloud-based delivery technologies that are being used by sports clubs in a world where they’ve needed to become media companies in their own right. 

Brand loyalty often shows up in unusual places. You'll find Man U fans in New York and Giants fans in Manchester. Because of this, sports brands are now evolving as media companies, turning to cloud-based OTT distribution to have the potential income and influence of an international audience.​

This episode’s panel is: 

Tom Basam - editor, SportsPro Media

Mark Wood - production solutions director, Pulse Live

In this episode of Cloudsourcing Storytelling, host Julian Mitchell and our panel discusses the benefits the cloud can bring to the documentary filmmaking world. 

With in-camera cloud integration and cloud sharing, the way stories are being captured, edited and told are changing for documentary across a spectrum of genres, from wildlife and nature to politics and social. We look at how this technology is enabling filmmakers on the ground and artists in their studios more time to focus on creativity.​

To discuss this in detail are: 

Rob Drewett, wildlife cameraman and co-founder and CEO of Motion Impossible

Alister Chapman, cinematographer and DIT

Hitomi Hamaba, head of product, news solutions at Sony